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If you're into vintage telephone network sounds (and some really excellent technical descriptions of phone phreaking) take some time to listen to Evan Doorbell's recordings: https://www.evan-doorbell.com/ I grew up in the tail end of analog switches near my home. I remember the sounds of making phone calls changing over a few years. They became a lot less interesting and a lot more uniform. The sounds you'd hear call…
I remember when the album was released and bought a copy. Much was made at the time that this was a real call: one of the PF guys (don’t remember who) told a friend in the UK that if they received a call from “Mr Floyd to Mrs Floyd” just hang up. The genius part was the the real phone operator quickly tweaked onto the fact that the call was to Mrs Floyd, who should have been alone, but a man answered…
I can grimly imagine someone calling the phone company to locate her so she can agree to appear on the published record.
"No, we made a call an hour or so ago. I'd like to speak to the same operator who placed the collect for us please."
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I honestly can't stand any of it. I've often told friends that if I ever owned a radio station I would ban Pink Floyd. Can't really explain why. Just don't like it.
Even Wish You Were Here? It's one of their more popular songs that doesn't sound very Pink Floyd-y.
Who remembers the ol' collect-call-to-yourself as a sign you made it home OK? I remember my family, when I was little, was mindful of the cost of phone calls to an extent that we used this trick a few times.
Excellent Pink Floyd exhibition in Los Angeles until January 9th. Lots of really interesting insight: https://www.vmmla.com/the-pink-floyd-exhibition/ WARNING: Music plays as soon as you enter this site. We went a couple of weeks ago. You can probably be in and out of there in about an hour. It depends on just how much of it you want to read and watch (they have videos with interviews, etc.). I love the band. Pink Fl…
Any fans of Poor Man's Whiskey? They've done a fantastic bluegrass revision album, "Dark Side of the Moonshine". Well worth a listen if you like PF. first youtube hit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v46u1ZwfohE
Les Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade also covered the entirety of the Animals album as the second half of their live set which is also obscenely respectful to the original and actually benefits from Claypools heavy bass driving it. [2]
If you enjoy bluegrass covers, then Hayseed Dixie are worth a look at :) [3]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJEZWsnIECo
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> I love the band. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon and after), I gotta respectfully disagree . Meddle was peak Floyd for me. The whole album is a transporting experience, including IMO the best Gilmour guitar solo ever.
Thank you. Echos is like a book or a movie for me. I could get so lost, then ten minutes has gone by. And whatever was bad before - well its still bad but now I'm insulated.
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Any fans of Poor Man's Whiskey? They've done a fantastic bluegrass revision album, "Dark Side of the Moonshine". Well worth a listen if you like PF. first youtube hit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v46u1ZwfohE
Easy Star All Star's "Dub Side of the Moon" is also done with a lot of respect for the source album (and not a hint of 4/4 transposition). [1] Les Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade also covered the entirety of the Animals album as the second half of their live set which is also obscenely respectful to the original and actually benefits from Claypools heavy bass driving it. [2] If you enjoy bluegrass covers, then Hayseed…
I worked as an electronic tech back repairing 4/5ESS switches. Those things were built like tanks.